When I was 15, hanging out with my friend Melissa* on a Friday night was a feat that defied the laws of popularity. We'd been close friends since fourth grade—we both loved books and Fiona Apple—but she'd risen above me in the social hierarchy by joining an exclusive clique of popular girls who called themselves The…»2/24/15 2:30pm 2/24/15 2:30pm

It's kind of the oldest trick in the book. Catfishing is where you pretend to be someone you're not online so that you can trick someone else into doing something. And based on a new report, this is exactly how pro-Assad hackers have been robbing intel from opposition forces: They've been posing as hot girls on Skype… »2/02/15 11:25am 2/02/15 11:25am

The U.S. government is neck-deep in creeptastic digital impersonation schemes. The Justice Department just paid a woman $134,000 in a settlement after she sued them for stealing her private pictures to set up a fake Facebook profile in her name so that DEA agents could catfish drug dealers. »1/20/15 6:12pm 1/20/15 6:12pm